Course Title: Building Quantities & Estimating 2

Part A: Course Overview

Program:
C5016

Course Title:
Building Quantities & Estimating 2

Portfolio:
SET

Nominal Hours:
40.0

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relative teaching time and student effort required to
successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may
include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also
the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and
complete all assessment requirements, including any
non-classroom activities.

Teaching Period(s)

Provides the learner with the knowledge and skills in estimating the construction cost and in preparing a bid (tendering) for a low rise residential project.

Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

BUIL 5200 Building Quantities and Estimating 1 (ABC076)

National Competency Codes and Titles

National Element Code & Title:

ABC077 Building Quantities & Estimating 2

Learning Outcomes

This course will provide the learner to develop knowledge & skills and able to: • Calculate cost and charge out rate for labour and contracting plant with reference to the awards, records and agreements. • Compute and provide unit rates for trade work from existing records, • Price and extend a quantity take-off with reference to industry pricing data. • Compute values for preliminaries and overheads. • Identify and collate supplementary costs. • Describe the procedures for pre-contract and pre-purchasing details related to seeking a quotation, cost rates, charges and discounts. • Prepare a quotation/tender submission for a client in standard industry formats.

Overview of Assessment

Assessment will be a combination of : • Assignment • Learning outcome test • Written examination